UT Passes App Retailer Age Verification Invoice
Utah grew to become the primary state to go laws requiring app shops to confirm the age of customers and procure parental consent for minors to obtain apps. The invoice (SB 142), which now awaits the approval of Gov. Spencer Cox (R), is an enormous win for social media corporations like Fb and Instagram father or mother Meta.
State lawmakers have sought to make social media platforms answerable for such age gating, however their efforts—together with Utah’s personal first-in-the-nation age-gating regulation enacted final yr—have been held up by authorized challenges. Now, Utah might change into the primary to go a invoice that might put the onus of age verification on app shops as an alternative.
The measure additionally marks an enormous momentum shift on such laws. Final yr, Apple killed an effort to go an app retailer age-verification invoice in Louisiana. This yr, a minimum of a dozen different states have launched comparable measures.
There was no phrase from Cox’s workplace on whether or not he would signal Utah’s invoice or not. However he supported the social media platform age verification measure that’s now on maintain. (POST REGISTER, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
Deepfake Invoice on Transfer in MT
A quick-moving invoice in Montana (HB 514) would give residents authorized possession of their very own picture and likeness to guard them from synthetic intelligence-generated deepfake images or movies. The measure, launched in mid-February and handed unanimously by two Home committees and the total chamber in a few weeks, would permit people to sue for damages of as much as $50,000 for violations. Different states, together with California and Tennessee, have enacted comparable laws. (DAILY MONTANAN, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
‘Youngsters Code’ Invoice Advances in VT
A Vermont Senate committee superior a invoice (SB 69) that might require social media corporations to regulate their algorithms and default privateness settings for customers underneath the age of eighteen. The “Youngsters Code” is a part of a collection of knowledge privateness payments the state’s lawmakers are contemplating this yr, after Gov. Phil Scott (R) vetoed a sweeping information privateness measure (HB 121) they handed final yr. (VTDIGGER)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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